MEXICO CITY, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Pilot error caused the plane to crash in Cuba in May, killing all but one person on board, the Mexican carrier that owned the aircraft said on Monday.
Mexican charter airline Global Air said investigations concluded that pilot error was to blame for the May 18 accident that claimed 112 lives, including the six-member Mexican crew.
Data retrieved from the plane's black boxes showed that "the crew took off at a very pronounced angle, creating a lack of lift that led to the aircraft's crash," the company's general director, Manuel Rodriguez Ocampo, said in a three-page statement posted on social networks.
The Boeing 737 crashed and burst into flames shortly after taking off at around noon from Havana's Jose Marti International Airport on its way to eastern Holguin province.
The aircraft was flown for Cubana airlines but was leased from Global Air.
According to Rodriguez, investigators from four different agencies recreated the maneuvers of the pilots on a flight simulator based on information recorded by the black boxes.
The investigation was headed by Cuba's Civil Aviation Institute (IACC) in conjunction with its Mexican counterpart Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
The makers of the plane and engines, Boeing and Pratt and Whitney, also took part in the investigation, he said.
Global Air has operated charter flights and aircraft rentals nationally and internationally since 1990, according to information supplied by the Mexican government.